Infographics a presentation modified from a presentation delivered by Gregory Howes and Kate Stevenson, 2014.

1. INFOGRAPHICS

2. SO WHY INFOGRAPHICS?
 Traditionally students had created a poster as part of a multimodal
research task
 Historically students used a mix of excel charts and tables
 They explained their findings in a presentation to the class
 But often their posters were not creative & could not be understood without a
detailed explanation
 Infographics are widely used in the news, magazines, advertising
and shared through social media

3. HOW TO CREATE AN
INFOGRAPHIC
Identify purpose and features
Analyse layout
Evaluate effectiveness of presentation
Make individual components

4. Source: http://inspiredm.com/30-
infographics-about-infographics/

5. Key aims for infographics
• Easily understood visualisation of data
• Clear ‘story’ of information
• Appreciation for interrelationship between different
aspects of information e.g.
– evidence of a problem
– cause and effect
– solutions

6. Source:
http://classroom21.ncdpi.wiki
spaces.net/What+is+an+Infog
raphic%3F

7. Caveat
• We are NOT expecting you to be graphic designers
• We ARE expecting that you research evidence and
present it in an interesting, informative and economic way

8. Let’s look at some
general infographics…
Where is your eye drawn first?
What is the story?
What do you learn?

9. Watch the next slide for 10 seconds

10. Source:
http://www.michaelsc
holl.net/campaigns/sh
ark-campaigns/save-our-
seas-foundation--
.html

11. What was it about?
• Where was your eye drawn first?
• What was the story?
• What did you learn?
• Was it effective?

13. Watch the next slide for 10 seconds

14. Source:
http://www.designinfograp
hics.com/other-infographics/
water-down-the-
embarrassing-lack-of-clean-
water-access-in-the-world

15. What was it about?
• Where was your eye drawn first?
• What was the story?
• What did you learn?
• Was it effective?

17. How was the water infographic better than the
shark infographic?
• Clear path for reader to follow
• Use of interesting effective water graphics
– Waterdrop used as a pie chart
– Glasses of water quickly conveyed message
– 1 in 6 people picture effective communication of $1.1 billion
people
• How could it be improved?
– Less text on the right hand side
– Other ideas?

18. Select the graphic you think is the
most effective on the next slide ….
Be ready to explain why ….

19. Source:
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esr
c=s&source=images&cd=&docid=YUkpXCdATMAil
M&tbnid=9KSomSfLuYDDdM:&ved=0CAEQjxw&url
=http%3A%2F%2Fvisual.ly%2Fpower-holiday-consumer&
ei=fEIhU4THPM2CkgXd3oHICw&bvm=b
v.62922401,d.dGI&psig=AFQjCNGO-
4IOn7zPCK0651xb8B90wLFd5w&ust=13947750350
16659

20. What other pictures could have been
used on the next Infographic?

21. https://www.mint.com/blog/tre
nds/the-tiger-woods-economy/?
display=wide

22. Critique the next infographic …
write your ideas on your word document ….

23. The good
things
• Lots of
different ways
to present
data
Things to
improve
• Needs a guide
for your eye …
• Where should
you start?
• What path
should you
follow?
Source:
http://visual.ly/get-facts-
canadian-seal-slaughter

24. Key things to think about for your assignment
…
1. Title and snapshot
2. What are my guiding questions from the graphic
organiser?
3. How will I represent the data? What images will I
use?
4. What path do I want the reader to take through my
visualisation?
5. How do I make sure I focus on the Consumerism
aspects?

25. Tips for design
• Video - http://vimeo.com/29684853

26. Considerations
Colour – can show correlation
Size – can show quantity
Orientation – can show trends or perspectives

27. How could you show 20% of
USA graduates are
unemployed?
OR
20%
80%
unemployed employed

28. Graphics of Causes

29. Graphics of Effects
How else could you
represent the data in this
table?
Your Turn …

30. Graphs don’t have to be boring
What is the key
message from this
graph ?
What are the
infographic
techniques used
here?
1.
2.
3.
Source:
http://www.edudemic.com/w
hy-it-pays-to-earn-a-higher-degree-
infographic/

31. The limit is your imagination but
be careful ….
What’s the problem with these infographics?
• The sand in the hourglass does not reflect the %
• There is no scale on either axis of the map graphic

32. Food waste
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUt5JP5mwJo

33. To make a start…
1. Decide what data/information to show
– Research evidence
2. Decide on a suitable colour scheme (2-5
colours)
3. Find appropriate images/graphics.
4. Start composing.

34. Pick a statistic and make an
infographic element out of it
Remember … it needs to quickly communicate information in an interesting way
http://www.statisticbrain.com/valentines-day-statistics/